8 d. ago Witness who called police on wrongly released Algerian sex offender inmate Brahim Kaddour

Kaddour-Cherif was re-arrested after being accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth. Two weeks prior, sex attack migrant Hadush Kebatu was arrested in the very same park.

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1 week ago Victim of Epping hotel sex attack migrant broke down in tears and felt 'in danger all over again' after he was mistakenly released and then paid £500 to leave Britain

The victim said she felt like Kebatu had been 'paid for what he had done to me' after he was given £500 to prevent a legal challenge against his removal.

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2 w. ago Ministers were warned that jail which wrongly freed Ethiopian sex attack migrant had 'litany of issues and errors' over prisoner release

The error at HMP Chelmsford, in Essex, saw Hadush Kebatu freed when he should have been handed to immigration officers.

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2 w. ago Ministers were warned of errors at jail that released sex offender by mistake

Chaotic release procedures at HMP Chelmsford were flagged to the prisons minister last yearMinisters were warned by a watchdog that prisoners were “falling through the cracks” of chaotic release procedures at the jail that mistakenly freed a convicted child sex offender.An annual report on HMP Chelmsford uncovered “a litany of issues and errors” including “a mix-up of release dates” when letting out a vulnerable prisoner. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Wrongly released Epping sex attack migrant claims he tried to hand himself in to police

The illegal migrant was freed from HMP Chelmsford in error on Friday just four weeks after being sentenced for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Essex

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2 w. ago Sex attack migrant mistakenly released from jail was given £500 to leave the country

The Ethiopian was found guilty of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl and a woman in Epping, Essex, just over a week after arriving in the UK on a small boat in June.

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2 w. ago Sex attack migrant deported 'with no right to return' after UK

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she 'pulled every lever' to deport Kebatu, and added that she was 'pleased to confirm this vile child sex offender has been deported. Our streets are safer because of it'

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2 w. ago Prison staff complain they are being 'scapegoated' after accidentally freeing Epping sex attack migrant as Lammy blames 'human error'

Mark Fairhurst, the national chair of the UK Prison Officers' Association (POA), said at least two more senior figures were also involved in the release of Hadush Kebatu.

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2 w. ago David Lammy to face Commons questions after arrest of Epping migrant sex offender mistakenly freed from jail

The Justice Secretary has said Hadush Kebatu will be deported this week after his arrest on Sunday morning in Finsbury Park

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2 w. ago David Lammy faces Commons grilling after sex offender mistakenly freed from jail

Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Lammy to face questions after arrest of sex offender mistakenly freed from jail

Hadush Kebatu was found and arrested by police officers on Sunday morning in Finsbury Park.

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2 w. ago Moment fugitive Epping sex attack migrant is arrested in north London after his accidental release sparked three day hunt

A wrongly freed migrant sex attacker has been arrested this morning

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2 w. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Epping sex offender arrested in north London after mistaken prison release

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Epping sex attack migrant arrested in Finsbury Park after three days on the run after Wes Streeting makes desperate TV plea

A wrongly freed migrant sex attacker has been arrested this morning

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting forced into humiliating plea for public to help find fugitive migrant sex offender as manhunt continues in east London  

Kebatu was set free from HMP Chelmsford in error on Friday four weeks after being sentenced for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping,

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2 w. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met hunt sex offender wrongly freed as CCTV shows him in east London library

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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2 w. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met hunt sex offender wrongly freed as CCTV shows him in east London

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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3 w. ago Sex attack migrant 'returned to prison five times' after being accidently freed

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Epping. The sex attack led to major protests in Epping

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3 w. ago Sex attack migrant spotted with avocado bag – after he ‘tried to return to prison 5 times but was turned away by guards’

THE sex offender migrant mistakenly released from jail was last spotted donning his prison tracksuit and carrying an avocado and egg bag. It comes after it was revealed Hadush Kebatu, 41, tried to go back to his prison four or five times as he stood outside for 90 minutes asking for help. Shocking new CCTV showed...

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3 w. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police urges Epping hotel sex assault convict to turn himself in

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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